Everywhere I go I see Christian influence...hmm...not knockin the Christians but...I don;t think we're as free as "the man" wants us to believe...yes i said it "THE MAN"
2007-05-29 00:49:03 · 15 answers · asked by redfrontstar 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
u ppl piss me off sumtimes..
2007-05-29 01:03:08 · update #1
Yes we do. Otherwise people would be jailed for practicing any thing else besides Christianity.
Christian influence is our freedom, to reject it is your freedom. No laws in this country will through you in jail or behead you for not following any religion.
2007-05-29 01:32:18 · answer #1 · answered by Old Hickory 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well not in the way most peole think. When a person owns a store that is for new age et al, in certain places, they find that they are targeted for violence. There is a woman who is openly Wiccan and those good christian have threatened her life, killed and hung some of her pets, vandalized her home and car. Yet she is suppose to have freedom to have her own beliefs. There is a couple who had Pagan bumper stickers that have been harrassed by a local police officer because he was christian. He wrote them, after getting their home address from their drivers license, about how they needed God. He stepped over the line of his job. The department tried to brush it off. Now I'll say I'm from a police family and have a hard time believing that he would just stop them for a bumper sticker but I'm sure there are other people here who will say they would stop people for less.
That's just a few. People try to say that this doesn't happen here. It does.
2007-05-29 08:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by Janet L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a Muslim and having lived in USA for many yrs, I can actually say yes America does have freedom of religion. No one is forced to follow a certain religion and everyone is free and entitled to their own beliefs. I practiced my religion as I would in any Islamic country. I could fast, pray, wear a headscarf, go to the mosque, celebrate feast without any obligations from others. I understand what ur saying that u see christian influence everywhere, but that's because Christianity is the dominant religion in USA, so u see it everywhere. Other religions there are considered a form of minority. I am now living in Egypt and u wud see Islamic practices everywhere, and that's because Egypt is an Islamic country. But still there are abt 10% of Egyptians who are Christians and freely practicing their own religion.
2007-05-29 09:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by Ruby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course we have freedom of religion. You are free to believe whatever you want, are you not? On this forum, you are free to express all of your disillusionement and anger at Christianity, are you not? No one is going to knock on your door and throw you in jail for saying anything bad about religion. If you so choose, you can go to synagogue. You can go to a mosque. You can go to a church. You can be a Hindu. You can have an atheist congregation. You can party with Tom Cruise at the Scientology Center. No one is going to press criminal charges against you for practicing your faith, as long as its not harming others. Despite all of your apparent concern, we most certainly have freedom of religion in America. And if we don't have freedom of religion here, then where in the world do you assume we do?
2007-05-29 07:59:41 · answer #4 · answered by LeilaK 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes...and no.
Basically, what THE MAN wants is to let people have their freedom of religion, but not to actually put it into practice.
One example would be working on the Sabbath. Can you imagine how many people would be P.O.'d if they couldn't make their precious money because people refused to work on one day of the week?
2007-05-29 08:09:16 · answer #5 · answered by Jed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, yes. This country was supposed to welcome all faiths since the drafting of the constitution. However because there was (and is) such a strong Christian majority in the United States, it's never quite worked that way. People of other (or no) faiths are just beginning to speak up and not let the majority have it all their own way.
2007-05-29 08:07:09 · answer #6 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is freedom. And probably more in the US than elsewhere. But any society will have some influence by religion.
2007-05-29 08:07:17 · answer #7 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do, but it is being chipped away. In WWII, no school kid had to pray "Under God" when reciting the Pledge. Their currency didn't advertise religion with "In God We Trust". There weren't "Faith Based Initiatives". And we didn't have people attacking the 1st amendment to the Constitution which is supposed to guarantee that government doesn't involve itself with religion.
There were other ways in which religion intruded into our lives, but we did make progress since then. Unfortunately, we have regressed even more. Luckily, a backlash is starting that may overturn much of these atrocities, but it will take a while to build momentum. I'm still optimistic that, one day, we'll see Christianity and all the other religions moved to the mythology section with Zeus, Mithra, Zoroastra, and all the other dead gods.
2007-05-29 07:56:03 · answer #8 · answered by nondescript 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Uh...yeah. You don't see Mosques and Synagogues being raided. You don't see people that aren't Christian being jailed and murdered for not being Christian. We have freedom of Religion, the influence is showing through because many members of Congress are Christian.
"Not as free", try living in a place where you get shot for saying your leader's tie is bad, then complain about us being "Not as free as they want us to think".
2007-05-29 07:58:39 · answer #9 · answered by Stephanie C 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
We have freedom OF religion, but we don't have freedom FROM religion.
The more people speak out for either side, the more it can change.
2007-05-29 09:57:29 · answer #10 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋